Strong's Hebrew · H5175
H5175 nâchâsh
נָחָשׁ
naw-khawsh'
serpent
Looking for Greek G5175 Trōgýllion? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5175. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
nâchâsh appears 31 times in Scripture, including Genesis 3:1 and Exodus 4:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a snake (from its hiss)
In the King James Version
serpent.
Derivation
from H5172 (נָחַשׁ);
Appears 31 times in Scripture
“He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.”
““You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.”
“The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,”
“He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.”
“So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.”
“Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.”
“So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.”
“Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.””
““Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.”
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
